# Elsie (given name)

Elsie is a feminine given name, a diminutive form of Elspeth, a Scottish version of Elizabeth. It has been in use in the Anglosphere as an independent name since the 1800s. The name has increased in usage in English-speaking countries in recent years.
It may refer to:

## People
### Given name

* Elsie Abbot (1907–1983), British civil servant
* Elsie Albert (born 1996), Papua New Guinean rugby league player
* Elsie Altmann-Loos (1899–1984), Austrian dancer
* Elsie Baker (1883–1971), American actress and singer
* Elsie Barge (1898–1962), American pianist
* Elsie Charles Basque (1916–2016), first Mi'kmaq in Nova Scotia to earn a teacher's certificate
* Elsie Bertram (1912–2003), English bookseller
* Elsie Bowerman (1889–1973), British pioneering female barrister, suffragette, and Titanic survivor
* Elsie Bramell (1909–1985), Australian anthropologist
* Elsie Cameron Corbett (1893–1977), British volunteer ambulance driver in World War I
* Elsie Cassels (1864–1938), Scottish-born naturalist and Canadian ornithologist
* Essie B. Cheesborough (1826–1905), American writer
* Elsie Cohen (1895–1972), British entrepreneur
* Elsie Cook, secretary for the Scottish Women's Football Association
* Elsie Cameron Corbett (1893–1977), British suffragist, volunteer ambulance driver World War I, and philanthropist
* Elsie Chamberlain (1910–1991), British minister
* Elsie Corlett (1902–1988), English golfer
* Elsie Dahlberg-Sundberg (1916–2005), Swedish sculptor
* Elsie Louisa Deacon (1897–1984), British railway draughtswoman
* Elsie Dohrmann (1875–1909), New Zealand scholar, teacher, and temperance campaigner
* Elsie Dubugras (1904–2006), Brazilian journalist
* Elsie Spicer Eells (1880–1963), American writer
* Elsie Ferguson (1883–1961), American stage and film actress
* Elsie Fisher (born 2003), American actor
* Elsie Fox (c. 1900–1992), minor screenwriter in the 1930s, married to American novelist/screenwriter Paul Hervey Fox
* Elsie Herbold Froeschner (1913–2006), American scientific illustrator
* Elsie Gabriel, Indian environmentalist
* Elsie Gibbons (1903–2003), Canadian politician
* Elsie Giorgi (1911–1998), American physician
* Elsie Gledstanes (1891–1982), British artist
* Elsie Griffin (1895–1989), English opera singer
* Elsie Hall (1877–1976), Australian-born South African classical pianist
* Elsie Heiss, Australian indigenous elder and Catholic religious leader
* Elsie Higgon (1879–1969), English pharmacist
* Elsie Hodder (1886–1952), English actress and singer under the stage name Lily Elsie
* Elsie M. Hueffer (1876–1949), British translator
* Elsie Ao Ieong, Macau government minister
* Elsie Inglis (1864–1917), innovative Scottish doctor
* Elsie Janis (1889–1956), American singer, songwriter, actress, and screenwriter
* Elsie Jury (1910–1993), Canadian archaeologist
* Elsie S. Kanza, Tanzanian economist and diplomat
* Elsie May Kittredge (1870–1954), American botanist
* Elsie Caroline Krummeck (1913–1999), American artist and industrial designer
* Elsie Lefebvre (born 1979), Quebec politician
* Elsie Lessa (1912–2000), American-Brazilian journalist and writer
* Elsie Leung, member of the Executive Council of Hong Kong
* Elsie M. Lewis (1912–1992), first African American female historian
* Elsie Locke (1912–2001), New Zealand writer, historian, and activist in the feminism and peace movements
* Elsie Lyon, Canadian politician; see Cooperative Commonwealth Federation candidates, 1953 Manitoba provincial election#Elsie Lyon (Fisher)
* Elsie Mackay (c.1893–1928), British actress, interior decorator and pioneering aviator who died trying to fly across the Atlantic
* Elsie MacLeod, American actress
* Elsie Maréchal (1894–1969), English woman active in the Belgian Resistance during the Second World War
* Elsie Rosaline Masson (1890–1935), Australian photographer
* Elsie Mitchell (died 1945), American woman killed in Oregon by a Japanese balloon bomb during World War II; see Fire balloon#Single lethal attack
* Elsie Smeaton Munro (1880–1961), Scottish writer
* Elsie Murray (1878–1965), American psychologist
* Elsie Paitai (born 1963), New Zealand rugby union player
* Elsie Clews Parsons (1875–1941), American anthropologist, sociologist, folklorist and feminist
* Elsie Payne (1927–2004), teacher and first indigenous Barbadian principal of Queen's College of Bridgetown
* Elsie Palmer Payne (1884–1971), American painter
* Elsie Dodge Pattee (1876–1975), American painter
* Elsie Pidgeon (1879–1956), Australian hospital matron
* Elsie Quinlan (1914–1952), Irish-born South African Dominican sister
* Elsie Reasoner Ralph (1878–1913), American war correspondent and sculptor
* Elsie Robinson (1993–1956), American syndicated columnist
* Elsie Shrigley (1899–1978), English vegan activist and co-founder of The Vegan Society
* Elsie Sigel (c.1890–1909), American murder victim
* Elsie Snowden, member of the Snowden Family Band, a 19th-century African American musical group
* Elsie Stevens (born 1907), British artist
* Elsie Sunderland, Canadian environmental scientist
* Elsie Suréna (born 1956), Haitian writer and photographer
* Elsie Toles (1888–1957), Arizona's superintendent of public instruction, professor, and author
* Elsie Tu (Traditional Chinese characters: 杜葉錫恩) (1913–2015), also known as Elsie Elliot, Hong Kong social activist and member of the Urban Council of Hong Kong
* Elsie Eleanor Verity (1894–1971), British motor engineer
* Elsie Wagg (1876–1949), English philanthropist
* Elsie Wayne (1932–2016), Canadian politician
* Elsie Widdowson (1906–2000), British dietitian
* Elsie Jane Wilson (1890–1965), New Zealand-born cinema actress, director and writer in the United States
* Elsie Wingrove (1923–2016), Canadian baseball player
* Elsie de Wolfe (1865–1950), pioneering professional interior decorator in the United States
* Elsie and Mathilde Wolff Van Sandau (fl. 1914), British suffragette sisters
* Elsie Maud White (1889–1978), New Zealand artist
* Elsie Wright (1901–1988), Cottingley Fairies photographer and subject

### Short for another name

* Elizabeth Elsie Carlisle (1896–1977), English singer
* Elizabeth Elsie MacGill (1905–1980), Canadian aeronautical engineer, first woman to earn an aeronautical engineering degree and "Queen of the Hurricanes" (fighter aircraft)
* Eliška Elsie Paroubek (1906–1911), Czech-American girl who was kidnapped and murdered

## Fictional characters

* Elsie the Cow, an advertising mascot of the Borden Company
* Elsie, a main character in the 2019–2020 Sarah Andersen comic series Fangs
* Elsie, a main character in the Playhouse Disney animated television series Stanley
* Elsie Dinsmore, titular character in the Elsie Dinsmore series by Martha Finley
* Elsie Dyck, a character from the 2020 Andrew Unger novel Once Removed
* Elsie Hooper, title character of the black and white horror serial of the same name, appearing in the UMass Daily Collegian
* Elsie Hughes, the housekeeper on the series Downton Abbey
* Elsie Hughes, in the television series Westworld played by Shannon Woodward
* Elsie Lappin, on the British soap opera Coronation Street in 1960, the first to speak on the series
* Elsie Tanner, on the British soap opera Coronation Street
* Elsie Crimson, a supporting character from the manga and anime series Edens Zero